Since arriving in China on Tuesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been relatively quiet on his typical social media platforms — but he’s chatting up a storm on Weibo. Trudeau has had his account for the Chinese microblogging app since February 2013, when he was running for leader of the Liberal Party. He picked it up again, along with social app WeChat, when he landed in China, where the government severely restricts access to social media. Weibo, which is owned by Sina, functions a bit like a longer-form Twitter and has more than 100 million daily users. WeChat, akin to Facebook Messenger, was developed by Tencent and has more than 700 million active users.

Source: thestar August 31, 2016 23:49 UTC